It was from the slopes of this
mountain that my father James Lovelock
first began to measure the haze that obscured the view across Bantry
Bay in the 1960`s, looking for CFC`s as tracers of atmospheric
pollution. . He set up an atmospheric monitoring station in Adrigole,
which was run by our neighbour Michael OSullivan. I spent many years
helping transcribe the data,
as well as making other measurements, such as visibility, relevant to
the topic of Global Dimming, which has come into prominence now in 2005.